Oaken Tower News

[h3]Encounters enter the oaken woods![/h3]

I managed to sneak in some more content.

There are now 10 different encounters in the game, 5 of which will appear in a run.
You can see your encounter history beside the tower, as well as your opponents encounter history.



Day 3:
Always Priest (gives Max HP)

Day 4:
Pirate
Potion Seller
Shieldbearer
Warrior

Day 6:
Chronomancer
Elder
Enchanter

Day 8:
Always Cleric (Gives Max hp / regain hearts).

Day 9:
Celestia
Master Aldros

[h3]Balance:[/h3]

• 🔴Darksteel (Common): 25 damage --> 20 damage.
  
• 🟡Cursed Necklace (Legendary): No longer works on Natures Call.
  
• 🔴Emerald Sword (Legendary): 3 bleed --> 2 bleed. | 4.4s cooldown --> 4.8s cooldown.
  
• 🔴Nightquill (Legendary): 55 gold --> 60 gold.
  
• 🟢Venom Ring (Legendary): 6.1s cooldown --> 5.8s cooldown.
  
• 🔴Cobalt Spear (Legendary): 6.2s cooldown --> 6.7s cooldown | 50 gold --> 55 gold.
  

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• Moon knife triple weren't actually fixed last patch, but now it has been fixed for good. Triple moon knife gives +32 XP.
  
• Protector and Lifeguard now removes temporary damage/shield from Flamy Way Axe and Blazing Bull.
  

[h3]Other:[/h3]

• The Max HP cap has been increased to 15K.
  
• You now gain +30% max health on level up rather than +25%.
  
• The medic has gotten a new job as a priest.
  
• Items now show a gold coin icon instead of "$". A dollar sign? Come on that was kinda troll.
  

As always, the PvP environment will take an hour or two to flush out old/unnerfed player builds from the pool. Early round builds will be flushed quicker.

Expect balance/changes to the new encounters.

//Bocary

New items:

• Bulwark: Epic | 2.8s cooldown | 0 damage | 25 shield | "On trigger: Permanently gain +1 shield."
  
• Venom Ring: Legendary | 4.5s cooldown | 0 damage | 5 poison | "On trigger: Permanently gain +1 poison per poison item."
  
• Wardbinder: Epic | 5s cooldown | 0 damage | "On trigger: Trigger adjacent shields."
  
• Warrior Shield: Legendary | 3.5s cooldown | 0 damage | 70 shield | "Whenever you gain shield, deal 45 damage."
  
• Lifeguard: Rare | 3.1s cooldown | 0 damage | 30 shield | "On trigger: remove 3 burn, 2 poison and 1 bleed."
  

[h3]New feature: The Oak[/h3]
After a game of Oaken Tower, you can now fight The Oak.
The Oak can not die, but it will keep track of how much damage it has taken. This is used to see how much damage your build can reach, before you die to fatigue.

New Player avatar: Wooden Log.
Unlocked by dealing 300k damage to The Oak.

[h3]Balance:[/h3]

• 🔴Cobalt Spear (Legendary): 5.3s cooldown --> 6.2s cooldown
  
• 🔴Wildfire (Common): 6 burn --> 5 burn
  
• 🟢Redemption (Legendary): $65 --> $55
  
• 🟢Trigem (Legendary): 5.9s cooldown --> 5.7s cooldown.
  
• 🔴Novice Blade (Common): 25 damage --> 20 damage | 2.5s cooldown --> 2.6s cooldown.
  
• 🟢Life Essence (Epic): +30 max hp per trigger --> +50 max hp per trigger.
  
• 🔴Crystal Flare (Common): +2 burn on trigger --> +1 burn on trigger | 6.3s cooldown --> 5s cooldown.
  
• 🔴Amber (Epic): 2 bleed --> 0 bleed.
  
• 🟢Jade (Common): 4.9s cooldown --> 4.5s cooldown.
  
• 🟢Lightblade (Rare): "Whenever you heal, gain +3 bonus damage." --> "Whenever you heal, gain +4 bonus damage." | 4.2s cooldown --> 3.9s cooldown.
  
• 🔴Natures Call: Epic --> Legendary.
  
• 🟢Venomstrike (Epic): 5 poison --> 7 poison | Bow --> Bow/Elven | 5.2s cooldown --> 5s cooldown.
  
• 🟢Refined Bow (Epic): $60 --> $40
  
• 🟢How to Grow (Rare): 6.5s cooldown --> 5.5s cooldown.
  
• 🟡Poison Dagger (Rare): 3 poison --> 5 poison. | $35 --> $45. | 2.7s cooldown --> 2.8s cooldown.
  
• 🟢Protector (Legendary): 3s cooldown --> 2.8s cooldown.
  
• 🔴Arcane Mace (Common): 4 burn --> 3 burn.
  
• 🟢Flamy War Axe (Legendary): 5 burn --> 10 burn.
  
• 🟢Hunter's Tome (Rare): 14 damage --> 20 damage. | 3.9s cooldown --> 3.5s cooldown.
  
• 🟢Refined Bow (Epic): 15 damage --> 20 damage.
  
• 🔴Snowflakes (Common): 10 damage --> 8 damage | 2.2s cooldown --> 2.4s cooldown.
  

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• Spikey Mace: The word "Permanently" added to the item text.
  
• Astral Hammer: Now works as intended if tripled.
  

[h3]Other:[/h3]

• Natures call now works on Cursed Necklace. This was disabled because it was a pretty op interaction, where Cursed Necklace would get a lot of multicast (each trigger will give itself exponentially scaling multicast in combat). However, since CN has a fairly long cooldown I wanted to enabled it and see how it goes.
  
• Added an indicator in the shop (underneath level) to see what chest reward you will earn from triples. Hover with mouse to see what levels the reward will upgrade.
  

As always, the PvP environment will take an hour or two to flush out old/unnerfed player builds from the pool. Early round builds will be flushed quicker.

As my exams approach, I will not be doing more updates until early june.

//Bocary

[h3]Oaken Tower Patch: v0.1.7[/h3]

Small balance patch.

Balance:
🔴Hook: Common --> Rare.
🔴Dagger Manual: Rare --> Epic.
🟢Sword Techniques: Gives +3 damage to sword below --> Gives +4 damage to sword below.
🔴Void Stinger: 2.3s cooldown --> 2.9s cooldown.
🔴Nightquill: $40 --> $55.
🟢Life Essence: On trigger: +30 max health --> On trigger: +40 max health.
🟢Jade: 5.1s cooldown --> 4.9s cooldown.
🔴Crystal Flare: 6.1s cooldown --> 6.3s cooldown.
🔴Molten Bow: 4.1s cooldown --> 4.2s cooldown | 8 damage --> 5 damage.
🔴Ruby Knife: 8 damage --> 5 damage.
🔴Amber: 3s cooldown --> 3.3s cooldown.
🔴Eclipse: 2.3s cooldown --> 2.7s cooldown.
🟢Woodchopping: +3 damage to axes --> +4 damage to axes. | 6.3s cooldown --> 6.1s cooldown.

Fixes:
Twillight's Edge now matches the cooldown in the shop and when it's bought.

Other:
Items that are tripled no longer combines the sell value of all 3 items, but only from the 2 that you had in your inventory already.
Added some more animations and sound effects.

//Bocary

[h3]Oaken Tower Patch: v0.1.6[/h3]
[h2]Greetings, Oaklings[/h2]

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Stat indicators have been added to Oaken Tower!
You can now get a nice overview of your items stats at a glance.
This setting can be toggled on/off.



New item: Nightquill | Epic | Artifact/Dark | $40 | 0 damage | "Start of combat: Trigger your other items' start of combat effects".
This item has great synergy with "Cursed Necklace" (Legendary)!



[h3]Balance:[/h3]

• 🔴Natures Call (Epic): 5 damage --> 0 damage.
  
• 🟢Arcane Secrets (Legendary): 8 damage --> 20 damage
  
• 🟢Eclipse (Epic): "Start of combat: Permanently gain +2 damage per dark item." --> "Start of combat: Permanently gain +4 damage per dark item."
  
• 🔴Arcane Bow (Common): 2 bleed --> 1 bleed | 10 damage --> 12 damage.
  
• 🟢Trigem (Legendary): 6.5s cooldown --> 5.9s cooldown | "On trigger: If you have only unique item types, give them all +4 damage permanently."
  
• 🟡Coldshot (Rare) rework: 4 damage | 50% crit | 3s cooldown | "When another frosty item triggers, trigger this." //Dev comment: This gives frosty more playability as it synergizes heavily with Frost Orb and Frostbound.
• 🟢Bat Wing (Legendary): 7s cooldown --> 6.7s cooldown | "Start of combat: Permanently gain +2 multicast." --> "Start of combat: Permanently gain +3 multicast."
  
• 🔴Emerald Sword (Legendary): 4s cooldown --> 4.4s cooldown.
  
• 🔴Ruby Knife (Rare): 3.3s cooldown --> 3.8s cooldown.
  
• 🟢Cursed Necklace (Legendary): 9.5s cooldown --> 9s cooldown
  
• 🟢Life Essence (Epic): "On trigger: Permanently gain +25 max health." --> "On trigger: Permanently gain +30 max health."
  
• 🔴Brass Knife (Rare): 3.5s cooldown --> 3.7s cooldown.
  
• 🔴Hook (Common): 3.3s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown.
  
• 🔴Dagger Manual (Rare): 3.1s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown.
  

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed a bug where some (non tripled) items would react if as though they were tripled, if you also had a tripled version in the tower.
  
• Fixed an issue that made some "Start of Combat" effects not work intended, including High Blade and Spikey Mace, which didn't get the buffing it was supposed to.
  
• Fixed a bug where Moon Knife (rare) would provide XP to the player if the enemy had it in their tower.
  

[h3]Other:[/h3]

• The star indicating a tripled item has been moved a bit and centered.
  
• High Blade (epic) now has an animation and sound when triggering its start of combat effect.
  
• Healing Word (common) now shows a healing icon on trigger.
  
• How To Grow (rare) now shows a damage icon on trigger.
  
• Mace Studies (rare) now shows a damage icon on trigger.
  
• When items get buffed in-combat, the buff numbers now stay closer to the item they apply to.
  

The PvP environment might still hold old pre-nerfed items for 1-2 hours.

//Bocary

[h3]Oaken Tower Patch: v0.1.5[/h3]
This was meant to be a hotfix, but I decided to add more balancing, making it a back-to-back balance patch!

Since the damage scaling of items is generally outscaling players' health, the medic will now also appear on day 9 to give a +500 HP boost.

XP Needed from level one reduced to 52 (instead of 56)

Balance:
🔴Modern Archery (Rare): 16s cooldown --> 17s cooldown | $40 --> $45 //Dev comment: The Modern Archery spell has insane scale potential, so the investment needs to be very big.
🟢Life Essence (Epic): 4.3s cooldown --> 4.1s cooldown.
🔴Arcane Bow (Rare): 10% crit --> no crit | 3.5s cooldown --> 3.9s cooldown | $25 --> $30
🔴Molten Bow (Rare): 15 damage --> 8 damage.
🟢Cursed Necklace (Legendary): 11s cooldown --> 9.5s cooldown.
🟡Icy Axe (Common): 4s cooldown --> 3.8s cooldown | no crit --> 50% crit | 40 damage --> 25 damage.
🟢Ice Spear (Common): "On trigger: Gain +5% bonus crit chance per other frosty item." --> "On trigger: Permanently gain +1% crit chance."
🟢Hunters Tome (Rare): 4s cooldown --> 3.9s cooldown.
🟢Frostbound (Legendary): 40% crit chance --> 60% crit chance.
🔴Crystal Flare (Common): 5.5s cooldown --> 6.1s cooldown.
🟢Woodchopping (Epic): 8s cooldown --> 6.3s cooldown.
🟢Frozen Orb (Epic): 8s cooldown --> 7.4s cooldown.

Check out this cool video by SuperAutoGaming!
https://youtu.be/Rg3ml-rRSxY?si=nTT8R6-xbuRgMrZx

//Bocary